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and usually has the right to reduce payment if the condition of the cane falls below that
required.
References and further reading
Brown Sugar, Practical Action Technical Brief
Honey Processing, Practical Action Technical Brief
Candy Production, Practical Action Food Chain No 22
Small and Medium Scale Sugar Processing Technology, Andrew Russell, Practical Action
Bangladesh, 1998
Sugar Processing: The Development of a Third-world Technology, Raphael Kaplinsky, Practical
Action Publishing, 1984
Cane Sugar Raphael Kaplinsky, Practical Action Publishing 1989
Sugar Cane: The Tropical Agriculturalist R. Fauconnier, CTA/MacMillan, 1993
Crushing equipment manufacturers
Note: This is a selective list of suppliers and does not imply endorsement by Practical Action
CIMAG - Com E Ind de Maquinas Agricola
Rua St Terezinha 1381
13970 ITAPIRA SP
Brazil
A manual mill with a throughput of around
100 litres per hour. (More suitable for
juice drinks than gur production.)
Penagos Hermanos & CIA Ltda
Apartado Aereo 689
Bucaramanga
Colombia
A vertical roll, animal powered crusher,
capacity of 4-6 tonnes of cane per day. A
horizontal roll 4.5kW (6hp) crusher with a
throughput of 400kg of cane per hour.
Other models up to 1.7 tonnes per hour.
Tanzania Engineering and Manufacture
Design Organisation
P O Box 6111
Arusha
Tanzania
Electrically powered 2.2kW (3hp) crusher
with a capacity of 20 litres of juice per
hour.
Dias & Dias
690 Negombo Road
Mabole
Wattala
Sri Lanka
2hp and 6hp crushers with capacity up to
around 400kg per hour.
Agro Machinery Ltd
PO Box 3281
Bush Rod Island
Monrovia
Liberia
P M Madurai Mudaliar, P M
and Sang
Madurai Mudalliar Road
PO Box 7156
Bangalore
India
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Nafees Industries
Samundari Road
Faisalbad
Pakistan
This document was last updated in February 2009 and is based on the book Small and
Medium Scale Sugar Processing Technology by Andrew Russell published by ITDG (now
Practical Action) in October 1998. The book was based on the author’s experience of
working in the small to medium-scale sugar sector in Bangladesh and Kenya. Methods and
technologies may therefore differ from those in other countries.
14 Practical Action welcomes any information from readers about their own experiences of
small to medium-scale sugar production that will enhance, complement or expand on this
document.